U.S. President Donald Trump, declaring a national emergency because of tensions with Iran, swept aside objections from Congress on Friday to complete the sale of over $8 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Jordan.

Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily BeastThe Democrats must defeat the GOP's latest effort to impose the Bible as the law of America (which I have long referred to as "Christian Sharia law") as it relates to women's reproductive freedom. And the best way to do that is by championing a constitutional amendment—on both the national and state levels—to protect a woman's right to control her own body.

GOP activists have long openly shared their dream to overturn Roe v. Wade and to enact laws that will unduly restrict abortion in America. And given the recent changes to the Supreme Court's composition thanks to Donald Trump, they have been emboldened to new heights.

That's why we are seeing the recent wave of GOP state laws that restrict women's reproductive liberty, such as ones in Georgia, Mississippi, and Ohio that ban abortion at six weeks into pregnancy-often before a woman is even aware she's pregnant. And of course the headline-grabbing, extreme Alabama law that bans abortion even in case of rape or incest, requiring a woman who is the victim of rape to carry the rapist's child to term.